From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... inability to
accept much on faith, we ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we often found ourselves handicapped
by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.
2.
... inability to
control his drinking can do ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
If anyone who is showing
inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off
to him.
3.
... inability to
form a true partnership with ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.
4.
... inability to
leave it alone, no matter ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as
we know it -- this utter
inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish.
5.
... inability to
point imagination toward the right ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
6.
... inability to
stop.
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Certain drinkers, who
would be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at their inability to stop.
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